Troth Street Elementary School teacher Bonnie Werner, who keeps a mini-menagerie of lizards, frogs, snakes and spiders in her Riverside County classroom, discovered on Aug. 15 that thieves had broken into her Jurupa Valley classroom and taken the critters.

The Riverside Press-Enterprise (
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) says the lizards and tarantula were found in a nearby home and several people were arrested.

Werner was called Thursday afternoon to pick up her critters.

She says the bearded dragon had a broken tail and was being fed lettuce instead of insects and kale. The tarantula was curled up in a ball.